Ethan A Schmidt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3948622 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ethan A Schmidt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ethan A |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmidt |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMIDT E A |
| AFFILIATIONS | MIT University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Divided Dominion
In January 1674, Roger Delke was incarcerated in Surry County, Virginia, for his participation in a December 1673 meeting at the Lawne's Creek Parish church in which he and thirteen other Surry County residents had discussed a plan to encourage their neighbors to resist paying a recently enacted tax levy. The available evidence suggests that the fourteen conspirators were certain that their fellow Virginians would rise up beside them if the gover…
Alternative Contact
Book Review| July 01 2015 Alternative Contact: Indigeneity, Globalism, and American Studies Alternative Contact: Indigeneity, Globalism, and American Studies. Edited by Paul Lai and Lindsey Claire Smith. Special issue of American Quarterly 62, no. 3 (September 2010). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. viii + 388 pp. Notes and index. $30 (paper). Ethan A. Schmidt Ethan A. Schmidt Search for other works by this author on: This Sit…
Cockacoeske, Weroansqua of the Pamunkeys, and Indian Resistance in Seventeenth-Century Virginia
Cockacoeske, Weroansqua of the Pamunkeys, and Indian Resistance in Seventeenth-Century Virginia Ethan A. Schmidt (bio) In August 1676 Nathaniel Bacon brought his campaign to “ruin and extirpate all Indians in general” to the Green Dragon Swamp on the upper Pamunkey River.1 While there, he attacked and massacred nearly fifty Pamunkey Indians, who had been at peace with the government of Virginia for thirty years. Having once formed the backbone of…
The well-ordered commonwealth
This article utilizes the earliest English attempts to colonize the Americas as a lens through which to examine the assumptions held by elite Englishmen regarding the role of Indians and non-elites in their colonies. It focuses on the plans for, and experience of, colonizing Roanoke in the 1580s as a way to contextualize the later colonization effort at Jamestown. In these earlier failed attempts at colonization, patrician Englishmen began to esp…
Haughty Conquerors
Alternative Contact
Book Review| July 01 2015 Alternative Contact: Indigeneity, Globalism, and American Studies Alternative Contact: Indigeneity, Globalism, and American Studies. Edited by Paul Lai and Lindsey Claire Smith. Special issue of American Quarterly 62, no. 3 (September 2010). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. viii + 388 pp. Notes and index. $30 (paper). Ethan A. Schmidt Ethan A. Schmidt Search for other works by this author on: This Sit…
Cockacoeske, Weroansqua of the Pamunkeys, and Indian Resistance in Seventeenth-Century Virginia
Cockacoeske, Weroansqua of the Pamunkeys, and Indian Resistance in Seventeenth-Century Virginia Ethan A. Schmidt (bio) In August 1676 Nathaniel Bacon brought his campaign to “ruin and extirpate all Indians in general” to the Green Dragon Swamp on the upper Pamunkey River.1 While there, he attacked and massacred nearly fifty Pamunkey Indians, who had been at peace with the government of Virginia for thirty years. Having once formed the backbone of…
The well-ordered commonwealth
This article utilizes the earliest English attempts to colonize the Americas as a lens through which to examine the assumptions held by elite Englishmen regarding the role of Indians and non-elites in their colonies. It focuses on the plans for, and experience of, colonizing Roanoke in the 1580s as a way to contextualize the later colonization effort at Jamestown. In these earlier failed attempts at colonization, patrician Englishmen began to esp…
Haughty Conquerors
The well-ordered commonwealth
This article utilizes the earliest English attempts to colonize the Americas as a lens through which to examine the assumptions held by elite Englishmen regarding the role of Indians and non-elites in their colonies. It focuses on the plans for, and experience of, colonizing Roanoke in the 1580s as a way to contextualize the later colonization effort at Jamestown. In these earlier failed attempts at colonization, patrician Englishmen began to esp…
Cockacoeske, Weroansqua of the Pamunkeys, and Indian Resistance in Seventeenth-Century Virginia
Cockacoeske, Weroansqua of the Pamunkeys, and Indian Resistance in Seventeenth-Century Virginia Ethan A. Schmidt (bio) In August 1676 Nathaniel Bacon brought his campaign to “ruin and extirpate all Indians in general” to the Green Dragon Swamp on the upper Pamunkey River.1 While there, he attacked and massacred nearly fifty Pamunkey Indians, who had been at peace with the government of Virginia for thirty years. Having once formed the backbone of…
The Divided Dominion
In January 1674, Roger Delke was incarcerated in Surry County, Virginia, for his participation in a December 1673 meeting at the Lawne's Creek Parish church in which he and thirteen other Surry County residents had discussed a plan to encourage their neighbors to resist paying a recently enacted tax levy. The available evidence suggests that the fourteen conspirators were certain that their fellow Virginians would rise up beside them if the gover…
Alternative Contact
Book Review| July 01 2015 Alternative Contact: Indigeneity, Globalism, and American Studies Alternative Contact: Indigeneity, Globalism, and American Studies. Edited by Paul Lai and Lindsey Claire Smith. Special issue of American Quarterly 62, no. 3 (September 2010). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. viii + 388 pp. Notes and index. $30 (paper). Ethan A. Schmidt Ethan A. Schmidt Search for other works by this author on: This Sit…
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